The Wonk Monkey is looking forward to eating lots of food tonight. He was also looking forward to a news story of Thanksgiving and he found one at the top of his search list. It is a good day.
Three teens, presumed dead, have been found northeast of Fiji.
The boys – two 15-year-olds and a 14-year-old – disappeared while attempting to row between two islands in the New Zealand territory of Tokelau in early October and were given up for dead after an extensive search involving New Zealand's air force.
Tanu Filo, the father of one boy, said the news was broken by one of the teens' grandmother after she had a phone call from the fishing boat.
"It's a miracle, it's a miracle. The whole village, the whole village, there were so excited and cried and they sang songs and hugging each other, yeah, on the road. Everybody was yelling and shouting the good news," he told Radio New Zealand International.
The Color Coded terror threats initiated by the Bush Administration are going the way of the dodo.
It is Half True that the dollar has lost %98 of its value under the Fed.
So the Tea Party, despite its disputed methods, wound up with a figure that’s in the ballpark.
But in bemoaning the drop in value of a dollar, the Tea Party omits a huge mitigating factor: salaries have grown enormously since 1913 and consumers have more to spend. If the Fed’s historic handling of inflation is to be blamed for the drop in the dollar, it must be credited for the rise in wages.
Tom Delay has been found guilty of money laundering.
In order to get girls to stop getting married without permission, a town in India is taking away their cellular phones.
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